Create and populate temporary directory with Webpack compilation assets using Node's mkdtemp function, and have them automatically cleaned up when you're done using the magic of RxJS Observables. This is particularly useful when writing plugins to wrap other node libraries that load files from the file system.

Installation

$ npm install webpack-util-cleantmp

API

This library provides a single function, cleantmp, which returns an Observable that will resolve with the name of the new directory. The cleantmp function accepts 1 optional positional argument which conforms to the CleantmpOptions interface.

Simple Example

const cleantmp = require('webpack-util-cleantmp').cleantmp;
const subscription = cleantmp().subscribe(dir => {
  console.log('tmp dir:', dir)
  subscription.unsubscribe();
});

Interfaces

interface CleantmpOptions {
  // the compilation.assets object from webpack
  // Required if `globToDisk` or `globFromDisk` are provided.
  assets?: WebpackCompilationAssets;
  // Glob pattern to use to copy compilation assets to fs
  // If no pattern is provided, no assets will be copied to file system.
  globToDisk?: string;
  // Glob pattern to copy file system assets back to compilation assets object
  // If no pattern provided, no assets will be copied back to compilation assets.
  globFromDisk?: string;
}

export interface WebpackCompilationAssets {
  [key:string]: {
    source: () => string,
    size: () => number
  }
}

Example Plugin

import {cleantmp} from 'webpack-util-cleantmp';

compiler.plugin('emit', (compilation, callback) => {
  const subscription = cleantmp('tmpprefix', {
    assets: compilation.assets,
    globToDisk: '**/*.json'
  })
    .subscribe((tmpDir: string) => {
      // i.e. tmpDir == tmpprefix8FzVr2
      const fileContents = fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(tmpDir, 'foo.json'), 'utf-8');
      // Unsubscribing == rm -rf <tmpdir>
      subscription.unsubscribe();
      callback();
    });
});